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intoxicating

/ɪnˈtɒk.sɪ.keɪ.tɪŋ/ adjective C1
  1. Able to intoxicate; an intoxicant. · intoxicating liquor· intoxicating product
  2. Very exciting and stimulating, like alcohol or some other stimulant. (figuratively) · intoxicating speech
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Any other person would, perhaps, have been overcome by such an intoxicating draught of praise; but he feared to make for himself a mortal enemy of the police minister, although he saw that Dandré was irrevocably lost.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 103 · C1
When your grandfather and I boarded that ship in 1962, we were propelled by an intoxicating vision of a golden antipodal utopia.
The Malleability of Home, p. 1 · C2

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